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		treis on March 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything ... In my experience there's little long term retention from cramming.

vlovich123 on March 13, 2022 [–]

Can confirm. There's 0 retention. Maybe if I kept cramming over an extended period of time I could retain it. Typically though I stop after taking the exam so within about a week or two things I thought I understood disappeared.

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